Supreme Court sides with Google in $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle

Washington — The Supreme Court is siding with Google in an $8 billion-plus copyright dispute with Oracle.

The justices sided with Google 6-2 in a 62-page opinion on Monday. Justice Stephen Breyer delivered the opinion for the majority, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. The case has to do with Google's creation of the Android operating system now used on the vast majority of smartphones worldwide. To create Android, which was released in 2007, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code. But it also used 11,330 lines of code and an organization that's part of Oracle's Java platform.